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Flying Stone is located in White Clouds Scenic Area in Yellow Mountain, the north-west of the Bright Summit Peak, where is the concentration of 30% of the rocks in the Yellow Mountain. It is 1730 meters above sea level. Watching from the south to the north, it has a sharp top and round bottom, looking like a giant peach, which is called "Xiantao Stone" or "Xiantao Peak". The rock composition of the two above and under stones is exactly the same; their contact area is very small, so that visitors feel that the upper rock like flying down the cliff from the far heaven, so named "Flying Stone".

About the birth of "flying stone", it has been cast a veil of mystery in many years. According to legend, this stone is one of the remaining two stones of the goddess Nuwa's mending the sky, which later flied down the Yellow Mountain to become such rare stone. In fact, the Flying Stone is not from the far heaven. Same as the foundation bed, it is composed of intrusion of the fine-grained porphyritic granite in Huangshan rock mass supplement period. Originally, the above and under stones were a whole surrounded by rocks, later, because of the continuous lifting of the mountain massif, the denudation of the weathering, the collapse of the running water and height of the glacier, the surrounding rocks fell off and finally formed the wonder "Flying Stone".

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